(07-09-2023, 11:26 PM)Infolurker Wrote: Yeah, that yellowstone issue, I get it.
I prefer the Appalachian Mountains myself. Maybe the Ozarks but the last time Yellowstone blew it had covered crap all the way though St. Louis.
That's why I moved back to the Appalachians.
In 2014, we were in Kansas City, MO. We were in the ghetto there, on Troost Ave near the corner of 31st st, and let me tell you, that place got hoppin' every now and then! Even Black folks I worked with were amazed I could survive there without trouble.
The economy had been shot to hell, and I was working two part-time jobs to make up for the one full time job that wasn't to be had at that time. For several years, I'd been wanting to move back home to my mountains, and Grace decided that was the time to do it.
So I spent my birthday in 2014 driving 19 hours non-stop to get us back here with what stuff we could pile into a pickup truck.
When we got back, I was at least among folks I knew, folks who knew me, and a culture I could comprehend, Plants, animals, and wooded mountains that I knew, I knew how to hunt and gather, and knew well enough that I could hide out from airborne peepers if need be, I can even hide from FLIR choppers, infrared peepers, and airborne radars here. If you don't believe it, ask yourself how Eric Rudolph managed to stay on the run for 5 years in the Appalachians in NC, hiding out from all of the above and at times about 900 FBI agents beating the brush for him.
We have the occasional lightweight earthquake here, rarely ever above about a 3 or 3.5, and a flood or two nearly every spring, but we've managed to survive all of them for well over 200 years, and have learned how to work with this landscape.
A country boy can survive, but it's a lot easier when he's on familiar ground.
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